In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

The prayers of all good people are good.

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.