In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.