It is always delightful to have one's feelings expressed by some one else in language of enthusiasm one might oneself be afraid to employ. - Alfred Austin

Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,
And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.

The most generous of critics, if he is to be discriminating and just, cannot, let me say again, allow that any verse which is profoundly obscure or utterly unmusical, no matter how intellectual in substance, deserves the appellation of poetry. But on a very thin thread of meaning poetry, or a very fair imitation of it, may be hung by the aid of musical sound.

A person of the right sort is one who has a solid grasp and realistic apprehension of people and things as they are, an irresistible inclination to transfigure them according to his imagination, and an inexhaustible supply of philosophic humour.