Steady work turns genius to a loom.
If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!
It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.