It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.