"True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acut…"

"The past is a pebble in my shoe."

"Why does a lady in tight corsets never need comfort? Because she's already so laced. — solaced."

"I am a man of the world, and have seen much of its evil. I have also seen something of its good."

"That man is a fool who cannot be a knave when he pleases."