Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.

Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.

I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

Patience is the absence of expectation.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.