...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.