The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.