There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour...Narrator
But what does it matter? If we can't have good of it, we will neither of us have cause to cry at parting.Johnny Eames
We are apt to think that a man's heart should be touched when our own hearts receive so sharp a wound.Narrator
I have loved in vain - loved as I now know that few men can have loved. Is it not something to have had even that capacity for suffering?Adolphus Crosbie
It's mostly pride that ails you. If you could bring yourself to be as good as them as you judges to be so much better than yourself, you'd find that you'd lived to some purpose.Mrs. Dale
His own sorrow was too deep, too unendurable, to allow him to give comfort to another.Narrator
She was not fair to woman's eyes, but men found some charm in her face, and declared that she was handsome.Narrator
Love should be the tree, springing from the heart - and not the mere gilded unnatural blossom stuck into the hair, which has been made to grow upon an alien stalk.Mrs. Dale
Women are supposed to bear poverty and grief lightly, and do bear it lightly...Narrator
A man can bear the world's disgrace if it doesn't touch his own pocket.Johnny Eames