It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.