There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The ….

With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the….

The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and o….

It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also expe….

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest..

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers..

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans..

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street..

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it..

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine..

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf..

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before..

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them..

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions..

Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began….

The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of th….

Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always….

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure..

The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may ha….

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping an….

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule..