To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

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

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

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