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

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.