Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.