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.

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!

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

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

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.

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?