It was a matter of income, he would tell me, and of keeping two establishments; and I would answer that it ought rather to have been a matter of faith in God and in the value of God's gifts, the greatest of which is love.

I am romantic about love--oh, much more than you are, though older than you.

A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act.

Your Ninian was a man before he was a brother.

I hold that he had no right to sacrifice a great spiritual good of his own to the worldly good of his family, however he made it out.