"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vi… - Robert Louis Stevenson

You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now and where you stand?

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me - out of college and all - Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle.