To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.