Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

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.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.