The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.