At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.