A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.