Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!