The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything bette… - Sheridan Le Fanu

How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long – the care of cares – the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven – and straight you find a new stratum there.

There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.

He has attained supremacy in one particular line: he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer.