Nothing can ever hurt me.

Go back and do that which being a gentleman entails upon you to do--and leave the rest to God.

This is the winter of our souls, but it will not last forever.

The spring is at hand, if you will only trust, and believe with me that first we on our side must be ready to pay the price." Then she bent forward and kissed him as an angel might have done, and, without speaking more, rose and prepared to walk towards the stairway which descended to the lower court.
He followed her, and she turned before she began to descend the steps, while she pointed to the beautiful country.
"Look at the vines, all heavy with grapes," she said, "and the fields shorn of their corn, and the olives shimmering in the sunset; and then, dear lover, you will know that all things have their sequence, and our time of joy will come.

Ah! sweetheart, it is not farewell for ever; it is only that we must wait for our spring." "Halcyone," he said, while his proud eyes again filled with tears, "you have the absolute worship of my being.