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.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

Only poor men get hanged.