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 SaintsburyBut at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
George SaintsburyI do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.
George Saintsbury