A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.