A Great Deal Of Talent Is Lost

The Main Question To A Novel Is -- Did It Amuse? Were You Surprised At Dinner Coming So Soon? Did You Mistake Eleven For Ten? Were You Too Late To Dress? And Did You Sit Up Beyond The Usual Hour? If A Novel Produces These Effects, It Is Good; If It Does Not -- Story, Language, Love, Scandal Itself Cannot Save It. It Is Only Meant To Please; And It Must Do That Or It Does Nothing.

Among The Smaller Duties Of Life I Hardly Know Any One More Important Than That Of Not Praising Where Praise Is Not Due.

Some Men Have Only One Book In Them, Others A Library.

Life Is To Be Fortified By Many Friendships. To Love And To Be Loved Is The Greatest Happiness Of Existence.

I Always Fear That Creation Will Expire Before Teatime.