What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.