jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.
Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
Language is memory and metaphor.
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
Hope is a talent like any other.
Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.