Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.