It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

The defective can be more than the entire.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.