The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

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

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.