It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

I would prefer not to.