And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

We loved with a love that was more than love.

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.