I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.

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

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

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.