The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements$$$ but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay$$$ not among things done$$$ but among things willed.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often than not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

Bless thy simplicity$$$ Tess.

They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness$$$ because it was that which gave the humanity.

If we be doomed to marry$$$ we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

I agree to the conditions$$$ Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

What is ugly and evil is apt to change and grow milder with time.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.