"There is a scale in the meaning of the word socialist. In France it means about the same thing as a communist, when o…"

"The lover of romance may lie in the sun, caring not for the time of day and content to watch the butterflies that cro…"

"We know little of the lives of others, but we are apt to think that other people understand our own very well, includ…"

"A novel is a marketable commodity, of the class collectively termed “luxuries,” as not contributing directly to the s…"

"So far as supply and demand are concerned, books in general and works of fiction in particular are commodities and su…"

"There are indeed certain names and prefixes to names which suggest serious reading, independently of the words printe…"

"A community of vices is a closer and more direct bond between human beings than a community of virtues."

"Why must a novel-writer be either a “realist” or a “romantist”? And, if the latter, why “romanticist” any more than “…"

"It may fairly be claimed that humanity has, within the past hundred years, found a way of carrying a theatre in its p…"

"Modern civilisation has created modern vices, modern crimes, modern virtues, austerities, and generosities. The crime…"