What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

“He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admi…”

“Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of insp…”

“religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke's case, religion alone would have determi…”

“You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacri…”