Her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made to grieve on account of me. And that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground. And that no sexton be …

All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands.

But the ingenious machinery contrived by the Gods for reducing human possibilities of amelioration to a minimum - which arranges that wisdom to do shall come p…

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain.