I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?

Sleep has no place it can call its own.

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.