“It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness,”

“Four months or so of torturing ecstasy in his society - of "pleasure girded about with pain." After that the blackness of unutterable night.”

“You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!”

“The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue.”

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”

“Ideal conception, necessitated by ignorance of the person so imagined, often results in an incipient love, which otherwise would never have existed.”