To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.