Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

The comedy is always the same. In the first act the hero imagines a place where happiness exists. In the second he strives towards that goal. In the third he c…

I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requis…

A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut o…