Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

“The sages have a hundred maps to giveThat trace their crawling cosmos like a tr…”

“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will k…”

“You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are a…”

“The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; …”