When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

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

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.