To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.