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

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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

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 religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

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.

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