I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

The defective can be more than the entire.

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes