I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there