By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.