The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

There should be on great occasions a sense of crowd and urgency. There should be a sense of the importance of much that is said, and a sense that great matters…

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Turn up the lights - I don't want to go home in the dark.

I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list …