“Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.”

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ”

“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.”

“And when you are away, Gerald...with...her - oh, think of me sometimes. Don't forget me.”

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.”

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

“You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. My God, Harry, how I worship her!”