No, my dear. We happen to be going to the root of things, that's all. Perhaps it's as well to do so now and then. - George Gissing

For the man sound in body and serene in mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every day has its beauty and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

His religion is not an end in itself; he does not desire to be thought a saint; his prayers are inseparable from the chamber-candlestick, a mere item in the character of British respectability.

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.