Violence is sometimes a duty.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.