I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.