As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.