I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

Time touches all things with a destroying hand.