Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.