A Child Is A Curly, Dimpled Lunatic.

It Never Was In The Power Of Any Man Or Any Community To Call The Arts Into Being. They Come To Serve His Actual Wants, Never To Please His Fancy.

I Like A Man Who Likes To See A Fine Barn As Well As A Good Tragedy.

Society Is The Stage On Which Manners Are Shown; Novels Are The Literature. Novels Are The Journal Or Record Of Manners; And The New Importance Of These Books Derives From The Fact, That The Novelist Begins To Penetrate The Surface, And Treat This Part Of Life More Worthily.

To Believe In Luck, If It Were Not A Solecism So To Use The Word Believe, Is Skepticism.

Before We Acquire Great Power We Must Acquire Wisdom To Use It Well.