By Making Himself A Priest

I Will Be Chateaubriand Or Nothing.

People Generally Will Soon Understand That Writers Should Be Judged, Not According To Rules And Species, Which Are Contrary To Nature And Art, But According To The Immutable Principles Of The Art Of Composition, And The Special Laws Of Their Individual Temperaments.

Life's Greatest Happiness Is To Be Convinced We Are Loved.

There Is Always More Misery Among The Lower Classes Than There Is Humanity In The Higher.

The Power Of A Glance Has Been So Much Abused In Love Stories, That It Has Come To Be Disbelieved In. Few People Dare Now To Say That Two Beings Have Fallen In Love Because They Have Looked At Each Other. Yet It Is In This Way That Love Begins, And In This Way Only.