This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

The essence of love is kindness.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.