So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

Of course I believe in hell. I have three brothers.

Try to create a wall of inspiration around yourself in order to succeed in life.

Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.

Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.

Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.