It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.