If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.