Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.