Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

There's no police like Holmes.