The best things in life make you sweaty.

When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

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