"The human brain is a funny thing: it will see what it wants to see and ignore what it does not."

"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?"

"I detest the actively good. It is the passively good who do the least harm."

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."

"To write a good letter, you must have a good mind."