Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)

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

Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

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

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.