But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.

I’ve never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From what I’ve observed, many stupid people are easily able to produce children.

The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn’t the end of the story it’s the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.

Darlin'...I know what you look like when you've been kissed.

You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us.