Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life

The blood is life... and it shall be mine!

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

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

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.