The Greater Part Of All The Mischief

It Is Commonly The Personal Character Of A Writer Which Gives Him His Public Significance. It Is Not Imparted By His Genius. Napoleon Said Of Corneille, "were He Living I Would Make Him A King;" But He Did Not Read Him. He Read Racine, Yet He Said Nothing Of The Kind Of Racine.

Only That Type Of Story Deserves To Be Called Moral That Shows Us That One Has The Power Within Oneself To Act, Out Of The Conviction That There Is Something Better, Even Against One's Own Inclination.

What A Man Does Not Understand, He Does Not Possess.

The March Of Intellect, Which Licks All The World Into Shape, Has Even Reached The Devil.

The Most Congenial Social Occasions Are Those Ruled By Cheerful Deference Of Each For All.