Contrast is the dramatist's method.

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?