The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

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.

Sunlight is painting.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.