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mong the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I doubt if there is any more irresistible to her tha...more

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Among the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I doubt if there is any more irresistible to her th...more

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You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.

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The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.

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Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, t...more

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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

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

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I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren as a desert when she went out again—why I alw...more