We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.