To Fill The Hour──that Is Happiness.

I Find Nothing Healthful Or Exalting In The Smooth Conventions Of Society. I Do Not Like The Close Air Of Saloons. I Begin To Suspect Myself To Be A Prisoner, Though Treated With All This Courtesy And Luxury. I Pay A Destructive Tax In My Conformity.

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.

You Shall Have Joy, Or You Shall Have Power, Said God; You Shall Not Have Both.

The First Point Of Courtesy Must Always Be Truth.

We Put Our Love Where We Have Put Our Labor.