In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.