Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.