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 … - Thomas Hardy

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

It depends entirely upon what is meant by being truly great. But the long and the short of the matter is, that men must stick to a thing if they want to succeed in it — not giving way to over-much admiration for the flowers they see growing in other people's borders; which I am afraid has been my case.' He looked into the far distance and paused.

The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man.

Why should we faint, and fear to live alone,
Since all alone, so Heaven has will’d, we die?