Wealth Acts Merely As A Kind Of

Love Clamors Far More Incessantly And Passionately At A Closed Gate Than An Open One!

Imagination Is The Supreme Endowment Of The Poet And Romanticist. It Is A Kind Of Second Sight, Which Conveys The Owner Of It To Places He Has Never Seen, And Surrounds Him With Strange Circumstances Of Which He Is Merely The Spiritual Eyewitness.

For Though There Never Was So Much Reading Matter Put Before The Public, There Was Never Less Actual 'reading' In The Truest And Highest Sense Of The Term Than There Is At Present.

Let Me Be Mad, Then, By All Means! Mad With The Madness Of Absinthe, The Wildest, Most Luxurious Madness In The World! Vive La Folie! Vive L'amour! Vive L'animalisme! Vive Le Diable!

I Attribute My Good Fortune To The Simple Fact That I Have Always Tried To Write Straight From My Own Heart To The Hearts Of Others.