I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.