Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.