Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.