I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by...
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
The blood is life... and it shall be mine!
Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.
We learn of great things by little experiences.
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and en...
For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
This man belongs to me, I want him!
Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
Are we to have nothing tonight?" said one of them, with a low laugh, as she pointed to the bag which he had thrown upon the floor, and which moved as though there were some living thing within it. For...
Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think...