Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.