Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind

He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly, under the mighty protection of Apollo, who, with a great bronze gesture, lifted his huge lyre to the heart of a crimson sky.

When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!