Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.