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

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.