“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

“Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.”

“I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!”

“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”

“He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.”

“I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.”

“So does my grocer stigmatize me when I complain of the quality of his sultanas, and he answers in one breath that they are the best sultanas, and how can I expect the best sultanas at that price?”