We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

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

I will not let you go into the unknown alone.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

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

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!