What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.