The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.