He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.