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.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

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.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.