Enthusiasm Is The Fever Of Reason.

Reason Is Intelligence Taking Exercise. Imagination Is Intelligence With An Erection.

Nothing Can Be Sadder Or More Profound Than To See A Thousand Things For The First And Last Time.

His Universal Compassion Was Due Less To Natural Instinct, Than To A Profound Conviction, A Sum Of Thoughts That In The Course Of Living Had Filtered Through To His Heart: For In The Nature Of Man, As In Rock, There May Be Channels Hollowed By The Dropping Of Water, And These Can Never Be Destroyed.

There Are Souls Which, Crab-like, Crawl Continually Toward Darkness, Going Back In Life Rather Than Advancing In It, Using What Experience They Have To Increase Their Deformity, Growing Worse Without Ceasing, And Becoming Steeped More And More Thoroughly In An Intensifying Wickedness.

There Is Such A Thing As The Pressure Of Darkness.