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.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

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