He was a painter by nature. In a minor way, of course; still, a Leaf by Niggle has a charm of its own. He took a great deal of pains with leaves, just for their own sake. But he never thought that that made him important. There is no note in the Records of his pretending, even to himself, that it excused his neglect of things ordered by the law.

Niggle was lying in the dark, resting completely; so that, as he had not been either feeling or thinking at all, he might have been lying there for hours or fo…

It is your task, of course, to put the best interpretation on the facts. Sometimes they will bear it. What do you propose?

Probably he really became rather useful, though no one ever told him so. But that, of course, cannot have been the reason why they kept the poor little man so …

I detrattori della corruptibilita meriterebber d'esser cangiati in statue.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better i…

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something u…