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.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

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.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.