if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?