Violence recoils on the violent.

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.