“I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.”

“I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.”

“I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting.”

“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

“The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.”

“..the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”

“I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me.”