Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.