This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience.

Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags-rags that wouldfly off at the first good shake.

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.