Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.