Sheridan Le Fanu

"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."

"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 …"

"How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long – the care of cares – the only one, as it seemed to you, between…"

"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."