These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.