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For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease.

To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.

All romances end at marriage.

Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.

Love is a possible strength, in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. (p. 305)

To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience.

Magic's far too important to be used for rulin' people. (p. 316)

The footman, recognizing instantly the boundless bad manners of the well-bred, backed away quickly. (p. 262)

She hated everything that predestined people, that fooled them, that made them slightly less than human. (p. 291)

Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble. (p. 162)

He'd never told people they ought to be happy, and imposed a kind of happiness on them. The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in. (p. 293)