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

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.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

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

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.