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.

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

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

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.

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

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.