The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.
Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.
Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.
The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.