He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.