Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!