Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.