I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

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

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

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.

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.

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.