The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.

One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.