The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

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.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

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