"The whole garden as like a carnival, with tiny, gaily decorated forms, in groups, assemblies, processions, pairs or trios, moving stately on, running about wildly, or sauntering hither and thither." Chapter 3, p. 19

"The very outline of it [Anodos' shadow] could be traced in the withered lifeless grass, and the scorched and shriveled flowers which stood there, dead, and hopeless of any resurrection." Chapter 9, p. 59

"Content! - Oh, how gladly would I die of the light of her eyes! Yea, I would cease to be, if that would bring me one word of love from the one mouth." Chapter 10, p. 65

"Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence of the parts." Chapter 12, p. 77

"But though I speak of sun and fog, and sea and shore, the world there is in some respects very different from the...