Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.