death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.