Talent Wears Well, Genius Wears Itself Out;

Nature I Believe In. True Art Aims To, Represent Men And Women, Not As My Little Self Would Have Them, But As They Appear. My Heroes And Heroines I Want Not Extreme Types, All Good Or All Bad; But Human, Mortal--partly Good, Partly Bad. Realism I Need. Pure Mental Abstractions Have No Significance For Me.

Dissimulation Is The Only Thing That Makes Society Possible; Without Its Amenities The World Would Be A Bear-garden.

The World Never Leaves One In Ignorance Or In Peace.

We Only See Clearly When We Have Reached The Depths Of Woe.

Emulation Is Active Virtue; Envy Is Brooding Malice.