Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.