He cannot see beyond his own nose. Even the fingers he outstretches from it to the world are (as I shall suggest) often invisible to him. |
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. |
I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay. |
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him |
I looked out for what the metropolitan reviewers would have to say. They seemed to fall into two classes: those who had little to say and those who had nothing. |
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul |
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. |
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter |
It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter. |
It is doubtful whether the people of southern England have even yet realized how much introspection there is going on all the time in the Five Towns. |
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality |
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. |
Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous. |
Most women are not as young as they are painted. |
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt |