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

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

The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.

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?

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

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

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.