"The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time."

"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."

"We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we w…"

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."

"My heart was full of a thousand conflicting emotions."