People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.
Particular lies may speak a general truth.
Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.