But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.