Effective magic is transcendent nature.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.