"It is strange, but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction."

"Did God create man, merely in the end to become dead earth in the midst of healthful vegetating nature?"

"I was born with a love for the marvellous."

"I must love and be loved. I must feel that my dear and chosen friends are happier through me."

"The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."