The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.