The human mind is always inexorable in demanding a motive for all human actions. It is only himself that each man permits to act without one, and ava… - Jean Ingelow

A man can sometimes hold his own with one woman, but never with two.

She was not one of those poets who write verses—very few are; none but such as are poets through and through should ever do that. Verse is only words, the garment that makes the spirit of poetry visible to others; and poets who have but little of the spirit often fritter that little away in the effort to have it seen. But she was a poet in this, that the elemental passions of our nature were strong in her, and she bowed to them with childlike singleness of soul.

But two are walking apart forever And wave their hands for a mute farewell.