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!

Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.