If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.