“Little, impalpable worlds, were those soap-bubbles, with the big world depicted, in hues bright as imagination, on the nothing of their surface.”

“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.”

“What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world!”

“....the sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright.”

“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.”

“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”

“And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.”