Who said “Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.”?

“The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.”

“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”

“Shadow owes its birth to light.”

“Night is the mother of counsels.”

“Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.”

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”

“Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”

“What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?”

“I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.”

“How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!”