Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.
Friendship buys friendship.
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.
Music and Wine are one.
Adult males are what their moms designed them.
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.