“I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.”

“Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.”

“Women would rather talk to other women than to men, even when they would rather talk to a man than to a woman.”

“I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth”

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

“I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.”