An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
In politics experiments means revolutions.
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.