People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.