Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.