She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.