"But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for."

"Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope."

"Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?"

"I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths."

"I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea."

"There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely."

"The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it."

"Sleep has no place it can call its own."

"I want to cut off her head and take out her heart."

"It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import."

"Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read."

"And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill."

"Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me."

"Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands."

"Truly there is no such thing as finality."

"Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring."

"She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth."

"You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?"

"It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine."

"She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death."

"My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side."

"We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor."

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment."

"What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?"

"I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up."

"But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!"

"Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength."

"There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration."

"All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world."

"The blood is life... and it shall be mine!"

"Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective?"

"Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!"

"He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow."

"Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise."

"Souls and memories can do strange things during trance."

"I feel myself quite wild with excitement."

"I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore."

"The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told."

"And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman."

"For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me."

"274. "I have crossed oceans of time to find you."

"I am Dracula;and i bid you welcome,Mr. Harker,to my house."

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."