True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Art is the perfection of nature,. . . nature is the art of God.
If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely. . . . Our patience is not unlimited.
Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
We women have to stick together.
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.