I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.