...it is only death which is hopeless.

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

I'm a gamer. I play PlayStation all the time.

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.