Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Theories have nothing to do with life.