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

Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

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

War makes rattling good history.

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

...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.