Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

A small task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

Get stewed: Books are a load of crap.

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of so…