In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.