Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. - Willa Cather

Where there is great love there are always miracles,' he said at length. 'One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

Her interest in these people was more than a business interest. She carried them all in her mind as if they were characters in a book or a play.