My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

A kiss may ruin a human life

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.