..fairy was delusion, so was the law. At any rate, it was a sort of magic, moulding reality into any shape it chose.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

So fine a medicine is the will to action.