Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.