"Sometimes the obvious is only wishful thinking."

“You have a grim taste in miracles, my friend.”

“He dyed his hair with great art, maintaining enough gray to suggest wisdom, but not so much as to suggest age.”

“She said nothing, but said it loudly.”

“As often happens, fear showed itself in hostility.”

“There seemed no face within the cowl, only a black emptiness, and the notion sprang irresistibly to Dietrich’s mind that this was Death, now these dozen years overdue, treading a weary mountain trail in search of him. Then a flash of white showed within the shadow and Dietrich realized that it was only the angle of the sun that had made that hood seem so empty.”

“Philosophers will always have logical reasons for avoiding the good—and those reasons will always hang on their lust for material goods. A man who has little thinks little of sharing it; but the man who has much will clutch it with his dying fingers.”