"Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become."
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."
"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."
"Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again."
"Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path."
"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."
"Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them."
"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it."
"Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them."
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
