They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.

But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

Liberty must not be abused.

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.