Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.