There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.