A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at…

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

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.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: "Byron is dead!"

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.

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.