Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.

Literature is the expression of society.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.

There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!

Your heart doesn't care about being easy. Your heart only cares about what's true for you.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

It was clear that in a past life the detective had been a phone booth beside an empty highway.

He's stubborn, " Tux warned in a singsong tone."Stay out of this, " Mark spat."And touchy, " Tux added.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

There are no athiests in foxholes.