The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

"To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture."

I seem to have heard that observation before. . . . It has all the vitality of error and all the tediousness of an old friend.

"Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us."