Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.