Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
George SaintsburyThe hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
George SaintsburyOne of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
George Saintsbury