A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.