That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.