Intimates are predestined.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Friends are born, not made.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.