No man wants to marry, Finnula. There are just some women they can’t have any other way, and so it is a sacrifice willingly made in order to attain a particularly choice—

Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by.

I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.

All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

Having money is just the best thing in the world.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?