People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's… - Thomas Hardy

How people will talk about one’s doings!” Fancy exclaimed.

“Well, if you make songs about yourself, my dear, you can’t blame other people for singing ’em.

Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In Heaven we part no more.

To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite alone.