Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead..

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue..

But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you st….

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it..

Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog….

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for..

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors..

For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You oth….

Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait an….

Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fa….

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death,….

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats..

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past..

Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with s….

Sleep has no place it can call its own..

There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely..

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?.

It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass the….

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart..

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when….

But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe n….