Oaths are the fossils of piety.
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.