All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
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.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.