And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

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

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.