I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.