Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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