Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer. - Anthony Trollope

But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little — or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.