"Life is not long enough for these strong passions.

There is nothing in the world worth the price these bitter hatreds and stormy angers cost us.

You have thrown away a great deal of deep feeling on a lady, whose misfortune it was not to be able to return your affection as she might have done--as you most fully deserved at her hands.

Why waste any further emotion in regrets that we as useless as they are foolish ?" "You may as well ask me why I exist," Gilbert answered quietly.

"Regret for all I have lost is a part of my life." After this there was no more to be said, and Mr.Saltram went on to speak of pleasanter topics.