The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

I hope you're not leading a double life, pretending to be wicked while being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearabl…

The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does …

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can neve…