It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.