Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.