"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

"I have a lot of sympathy for criminals, but none for fools."

"I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."

"It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation."

"The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined."