One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. - William Somerset Maugham

What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

[...] the Eternal turned his attention to the three shades who stood humbly and yet hopefully before him. The quick, with so short a time to live, when they talk of themselves, talk too much; but the dead, with eternity before them, are so verbose that only angels could listen to them with civility.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.