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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.