"...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core."
- H. Rider Haggard
"Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble."
"Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of the ..."
"Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with mygeneration, and die my appointed death, and be forgott..."