Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.