Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. - Thomas Hardy

It troubled her much to see what a great flame a little wildfire was likely to kindle.

Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

Had Philip's warlike son been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted civilisation without bloodshed, he would have been twice the godlike hero that he seemed; but nobody would have heard of an Alexander.