You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

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

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.