The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.