How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares
if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.