And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak

George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Done because we are too many.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.