And yet to every bad there is a worse.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

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

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

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

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.