This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.

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

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.