“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”

“Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.”

“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.”

“If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".”

“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.”

“There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.”

“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”