“Let [the wife] guard, as much as possible, against a gloomy and moody disposition, which causes her to move about with the… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been,… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to… — Ana Mendieta Copy Share Image