There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance's of theism's truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.