Still beautiful, having been reared in intimate court circles, having been the confidante of plotters and the guardian of secrets, possessed of rare trinkets and souvenirs—what an open book was this /memoire vivante/, and with what passion did the young interrogator absorb the pages!
— from Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd

Just as on a day of clouds, when you have watched the distant hills, dark and gray with mist, suddenly a gleam of sunshine passing over reveals to you, in that flat surface, valleys and dells and spots of sunny happiness, which slept before unsuspected in the fog, so in the gloom of penitential life there will be times when God's deep peace and love will be felt shining into the soul with supernatural refreshment.
— from Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson