No Man Can Be An Agnostic Who

Reverence Is Fatal To Literature.

The More Highly Public Life Is Organized The Lower Does Its Morality Sink.

No Disease Of The Imagination Is So Difficult To Cure, As That Which Is Complicated With The Dread Of Guilt : Fancy And Conscience Then Act Interchangeably Upon Us, And So Often Shift Their Places, That The Illusions Of One Are Not Distinguished From The Dictates Of The Other.

A Novel Must Give A Sense Of Permanence As Well As A Sense Of Life.

I Would Rather Be A Coward Than Brave Because People Hurt You When You Are Brave.