“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”

“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”

“A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.”

“If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.”

“However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will oft...”

“Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.”

“His smiling face revealed a love too strong to be kept inside, but the feelings obviously rising inside him kept him from looking directly at Kikunojou. He gazed instead at Kikunojou's clear reflec...”

“Miss West is never idle. Below, in the big after-room, she does her own laundering. Nor will she let the steward touch her father's fine linen. In the main cabin she has installed a sewing-machine....”

“Every woman has a distinctive sense of beauty which is uniquely charming and euphoric.”

“A man who repents after doing any action, he will certainly become pure one day, that is definite.”

“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”

“To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”

“Her chest began to quake softly. "Why?" "Why what, sweetheart?" I said gently. "Why do you want me?" I didn't even have to think. "Because anyone who's been through what you have and can still com...”

“If you run from me, I will chase you, and I'll find you....”

“Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you.Silena: Awww . . . Percy, that is so sweet!Annabeth: Shut up, Silena.”