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

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

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.

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.

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

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