Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.