“The two divinest things this world has got,
A lovely woman in a rural spot!”

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”

“For a woman to be complete, she has to be a blend of Paro and Chandramukhi [the two women who love Devdas. I feel that I am that woman.”

“I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.”

“Even as late as the time of Carlyle, Ruskin, and Morris, lamentations arose over the injurious development which had changed the world from a wholesome rural and village life to a spotted fever of great cities and industrial hells.”

“Not a log in this buildin' but its memories has got
And not a nail in this old floor but touches a tender spot.”

“He's got great balance and great vision, and Emmitt has earned his starting spot.”

“What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.”

“God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides,—one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her!”

“I find it hard to sit still in one spot, and impossible to sit still in two spots.”