“Yes,' he answered; 'and you will be dead, so long as you refuse to die.”

“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

“I am ready,' I replied.'How do you know you can do it?''Because you require it,' I answered.”

“How old are you?""Ten," answered Tangle."You don't look like it," said the lady."How old are you, please?" returned Tangle."Thousands of years old," answered the lady."You don't look like it," said Tangle."Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am!”

“...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.''But you have just told me you were sexton here!''So I am. It is much the same profession. Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

“If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.”

“Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.”