News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Nearly all novels are too long.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.