Sheridan Le Fanu quotes

" "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." " # Faith # Belief # Conversation

" 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 your soul and the radiance of Heaven – and straight you find a new stratum there. " # Adversity # Life and Living # Heaven

" 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. " # Novelty # Age and Aging # Love

" He has attained supremacy in one particular line: he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer. " # Writers and Writing # Success # Love