There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?