Dracula

by Bram Stoker

it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play.

You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's eyes, because they know, or think they know, some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new, and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young,

not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth,

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Working together and with absolute trust, we can surely be stronger than if some of us were in the dark."

This was manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use arguing with him.

his manner was that of a man commanding destiny. He was, in fact, commanding destiny, subjectively. He did not really care for any of the things of mere earth, he was in the clouds and looked down on all the weaknesses and wants of us poor mortals.

Blind after the manner of men, since we can look back we see what we might have seen looking forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen!