Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all peopl…

At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.