The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.