A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.