Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.