Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

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.

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.