The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.