Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.