So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

The prayer of Ajax was for light.