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

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

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.

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