A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.