People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since t….

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the close….

Books do furnish a room..

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on..

On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either f….