"Love at sight is the choice of the dead. But the most of them are older
than ethical systems; and the decision of their majorities is rarely
moral. They choose by beauty,--according to their memory of physical
excellence; and as bodily fitness makes the foundation of mental and of
moral power, they are not apt to choose ill. Nevertheless they are
sometimes strangely cheated. They have been known to want beings that
could never help ghost to a body,--hollow goblins...."