Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.