My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

Some folk want their luck buttered.