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. - Sheridan Le Fanu

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 better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge.

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

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.