It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

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

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

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

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.