Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart’s desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven.
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness,
I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles,
I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.
Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about 18, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which is itself beauty, irrespective of complexion or conto...
But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.
A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained.
Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct.
Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration.
Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering i...
When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
What is it, Angel? she said, starting up. Have they come for me?Yes, dearest, he said. They have come.It is as it should be, she murmured. Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not h...
Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their rich plumage dabbled with blood; some were dead, some feebly twitching a wing, some staring up at the sky, some pulsating quickly, some contorted, so...
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any ar...
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from Neutral Tones)