Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it. - Wilkie Collins
I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young. - Wilkie Collins
Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. - Wilkie Collins
Nature's voice and Nature's beauty---God's soothing and purifying angels of the soul---speak to me most tenderly and most happily, at such times as these. - Wilkie Collins