Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.