The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
George SaintsburyMiss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
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 SaintsburyAlcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.
George Saintsbury