Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.