But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

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?

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

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.