The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.