The very shadows seem to listen.
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.