If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.