Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

Beware of creating tedium!

Life is so unlike theory.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.