Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.