There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.