We may divide characters into flat and round.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.