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!

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

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

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.