Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.