Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

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!

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?