To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.