It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.