I fell in love with melancholy

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.