It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

God defend me from myself.

Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.