It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.