Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.