Look back. Look back at me." Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage.

If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.

Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.

It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)

I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.