I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
It's never too late to be who you might have been.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.