No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.

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

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

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

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

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.