A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

Art is nothing; it's a way.

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.