1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.