For life be, after all, only a waiting for something else than what we are doing, and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice as yet; for what we wish for at the moment may be our undoings.” – Van Helsing, Dracula.
Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, no as we should know that they will be.
His head is what you call in plane with the horizon.
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
Miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock.
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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.
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men – even if there are monsters in it.
We learn from failure, not from success!
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
She has man’s brain – a brain that a man should have were he much gifted – and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.