Occupation: Writer Birth: October 14, 1856 Death: February 13, 1935
What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined..
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to t….
Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality..
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world….
Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers..
things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a gr….
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure….
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading..
As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there i….
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to ….
A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness..
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so tha….
There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness t….
There is too little courtship in the world..
There is no end to the deceits of the past..