The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and confronts everything else.

Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure…

It is very unfair to judge of any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation…

I don’t like reformers, and I hope you never try to be one; reformers are apt to forget that people can be led by a little kindness oftener than driven by much scolding, and I like the sort of goodness that makes itself beautiful first, and then others wish to copy it.

I want you to believe… to believe in things that you cannot.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

“I don’t think …” “Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.

Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.

I have studied men’s vices in order to defend myself against them; and I have found that, like serpents, they fly the light.

Remember that what we call our secrets are often the things everybody guesses.

I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body… but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.