Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.
When I am wicked I am in high spirits.
She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
Excellence does not require perfection.