It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

Honor lies in the mane of a horse.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.