So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

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

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.