"In the sect – fairly large and yet unusually choice – of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be found partisa…"

"[It] is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsom…"

"But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat — it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older —…"

"Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothi…"

"The Book of History is the Bible of Irony."

"We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to …"

"Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage."

"Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has bee…"

"I wish that I could save myself constant repetition by printing across the dog's-ear place of these pages the warning…"

"So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge."