My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.