The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.
fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.