“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”

Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

Introduction to Poems of Power 1918 edition

Source: Alice in Wonderland

"Forbes‎" - Vol. 166, Page 156, de Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 2000

Summations, Chapter 51
Context: I saw and understood that every Shewing is full of secret things.
And therefore me behoveth now to tell three properties in which I am somewhat eased. The first is the beginning of teaching that I understood therein, in the same time; the second is the inward teaching that I have understood therein afterward; the third, all the whole Revelation from the beginning to the end (that is to say of this Book) which our Lord God of His goodness bringeth oftentimes freely to the sight of mine understanding. And these three are so oned, as to my understanding, that I cannot, nor may, dispart them. And by these three, as one, I have teaching whereby I ought to believe and trust in our Lord God, that of the same goodness of which He shewed it, and for the same end, right so, of the same goodness and for the same end He shall declare it to us when it is His will.

Book II, 2.43
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II

"The Hunting of Cupid" (1591).