One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.

I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her personality in glimpses and gleams, like a song sung in snatches, but now it was before me in a large rosy glow, as if it had been a full volume of sound. I heard the whole of the air, and it was sweet fresh music, which I was often to hum over.(Sir Edmund Orme)

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.