He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

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.

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

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

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. 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.

You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?