The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.