In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be outweighed in a poem, a novel, or a picture, by charm of manner, by ingenuity of execution; but in a drama the subject is of the essence of the work-it is the work. If it is feeble, the work can have no force; if it is shapeless, the work must be amorphous.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.