Bless thy simplicity, Tess

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

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

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.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.