I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

By her shining and her power he knew her.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.