Novelist Quotes

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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