Flora Hope

“Oh! what a poor thing is human life in is best enjoyments! subjected to imaginary evils, when it has no real ones to disturb it; and that can be made as effectually unhappy by its apprehensions of remote contingencies, as if it was struggling with the pangs of a present distress!”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Swante Taggart had never thought of himself as a 'brave' man. The very word made him restless and irritable . . . as if men could be divided into the brave and the cowardly, as if brave men were always brave and the cowards always cowardly. It simply wasn't that way. A man did what he had to do.”
― Louis L'amour, Taggart

“...there is nothing for which I am more thankful to Almighty God than the gift of my wife's love. In storm it has been my anchor, and in clear skies my star.”
― Anthony Hope, Rupert of Hentzau

“...a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrollable passion has battered a breach for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was vouchsafed to him, than in fretting over wicked impulses which come unsought and extort an unwilling hospitality from the weakness of our nature.”
― Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda