The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

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

As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer,- in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can har…

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.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Marston is a writer of great merit, who rose to tragedy from the ground of comedy, and whose forte was not sympathy, either with the stronger or softer emotion…

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