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.

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

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it bec…

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…