Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

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