Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

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

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 transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

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

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.