"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."

"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."

"I wish he would explain his explanation."

"I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence – this may look like affectation – but it is my real opinion – it is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake."

"The best prophet of the future is the past."