I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.