A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

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?

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.