There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.