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

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

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.