Amaryllis at the Fair

by Richard Jefferies

“What a fallacy it is that hard work is the making of money; I could show you plenty of men who have worked the whole of their lives as hard as ever could possibly be, and who are still as far off independence as when they began…”

Indian Love Lyrics

by Laurence Hope

“They say that Love is a light thing,

A foolish thing and a slight thing,

A ripe fruit, rotten at core…”

Cabbages and Kings

by O. Henry

“For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main. That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean…is still begirt by mystery and romance…”

The Dolly Dialogues

by Anthony Hope

“I believe Miss Dolly has got a husband who is (let us say) good enough for her. And, for one reason and another, I am glad of it. And I also believe that she knows it. And I am – I suppose – glad of that too. Oh, yes, of course I am. Of course…”

Peter Ibbetson

by George du Maurier

“To write a story of paramount importance to mankind, it is true, but all about one’s outer and one’s inner self, to do this without seeming somewhat egotistical, requires something akin to genius – and I am but a poor scribe…”

The Island Pharisees

by John Galsworthy

“There’s something about human nature that is awfully repulsive, and the healthier people are, the more repulsive they seem to me to be…”

The Lake

by George Moore

“The accident that turns one into the road is only the means which Providence takes to procure the working out of certain ends. Accidents are many: life is as full of accidents as a fire is full of sparks…”

The Trespasser

by D. H. Lawrence

“When Siegmund had Helena near, he lost the ache, the yearning towards something, which he always felt otherwise. She seemed to connect him with the beauty of things, as if she were the nerve through which he received intelligence of the sun, and wind, and sea, and of the moon and the darkness…”