"But in all the wide world there was not a soul to hold out a hand to me, and I said bitterly, "There is no good in th…"

"Provided a woman is beautiful allowance will be made for all her shortcomings. She can be unchaste, vapid, untruthful…"

"Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! Nothing to live for in life-…"

"Ah, health and wealth, happiness and youth, joy and light, life and love! What a warm-hearted place is the world, how…"

"We (999 out of every 1000) can see nought in sunsets save as signs and tokens whether we may expect rain on the morro…"

"Hope, sweet, cruel, delusive Hope, whispered in my ear that life was long with much by and by, and in that by and by …"

"Summer is fiendish, and life is a curse, I said in my heart. What a great dull hard rock the world was! On it were a …"

"It appears that we all labour under delusions."

"If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clas…"

"Christmas, only distinguished from the fifty-two slow Sundays of the year by plum-pudding, roast turkey, and a few bo…"