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

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

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.

Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

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

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.