She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.