“Death had been more pitiful to them than longer life would have been. It had taken the one in the loyalty of love, and the other in the innocence of faith, from a world which for love has no recompense and for faith no fulfillment.”

“Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.”

“Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.”

“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.”

“It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.”

“Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.”

“An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.”

“What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.”

“A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.”

“It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.”

“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.”