It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

But no one came. Because no one ever does.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.