Is nothing true that one hears or reads, I wonder?
Here is where I kissed her! I wouldn't kiss her again, if I had the chance; I swear I would not.

I am a good boy now--all morality, if not religion--for they do say that hell is paved with good intentions--which seems hard.

If one is to be punished for one's wicked thoughts--even if they do not bear fruit--it is surely but reasonable that one's good ones--even if never carried into practice--should be set down on the credit side of the ledger." With an exclamation of contempt or impatience, he turned from the dizzy sight of cliff and sea, and shouldered his way through the wind-kept doorway on to the open summit of the rock.

It was a wild waste place indeed, yet not without ample indications of having been inhabited in days of old.

Low but massive walls sketched out the ground-plan of many a chamber, the respective uses of which could only now be guessed at.
But beneath one broken arch there was a heap of rude steps with a stone something on it, which Richard rightly imagined had once formed an altar.