She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

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

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.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

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