Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn’t let it go.

It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for that possession, the waste of which is called Dissipation. Unfortunately the...

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

He liked to touch, she realized. In bed, he kept his arms around her or a hand on her like now. The way he played with her breasts, or just touched her, or ran his...