The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.