She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.