One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.
Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.
Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.