Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Lord, keep my memory green.