"In my College days I had been Auditor of the Historical Society — a post which corresponds to the Presidency of the U…"

"We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many s…"

"Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make."

"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."

"Despair has its own calms."

"One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token…"

"You think to baffle me, you—with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's."

"Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth t…"

"Logically speaking, even the life of an actor has no preface. He begins, and that is all. And such beginning is usual…"

"I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful ac…"