Let the black flower blossom as it may!

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.