They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

We are the boys That fear no noise Where the thundering cannons roar.

Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and st…

The first blow is half the battle.

But I hope that in the lives of [the characters], you will find stories worth holding in your memory, perhaps even in your heart. That's the transaction that c…

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.