Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
What fire does not destroy, it hardens
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.