the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.