The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

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

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

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.

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