Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

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

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

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

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.