If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the…

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting, and, alas! self-seeking me.

Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.