In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.