I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

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

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

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

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!