Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a litt…

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.