You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.