We learn of great things by little experiences.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

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

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

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

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.