You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

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

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.

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

...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?