There are moments when one is more ashamed of what is called culture than any one can ever be of ignorance. - E. V. Lucas

Unhappily in England just now,...the type of journalist who seems to have most readers is permitted to be the least sagacious and the least independent.

In France he would have been, I think, a sad bore, for there he would have discovered so many points of superiority to the English: but not even so keen a censor of his own country and countrymen as Mr. Dabney could find aught in Venice, except such forgivable and inimitable advantages as crumbling and picturesque architecture and clear skies, to hold up as a model for home adoption.

The crying need for the moment in this country, as in America, is a gospel of poverty to cope with the gospel of riches that is vitiating society.