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

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

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.

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.