I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.