All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.