I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

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

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

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.