All romances end at marriage.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

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.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

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

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.