Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.