Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

“[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, …”

“ 'How a mother can look at her baby, and know that she lives beyond her husband…”

“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the c…”

“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow…”