Personality Is Lower Than Partiality.

In My Youth,geology Was Nervously Striving To Accommodate Itself To Genesis. Now It Is Genesis That Is Striving To Accommodate Itself To Geology.

As To London We Must Console Ourselves With The Thought That If Life Outside Is Less Poetic Than It Was In The Days Of Old, Inwardly Its Poetry Is Much Deeper.

Yet For My Part, Deeply As I Am Moved By The Religious Architecture Of The Middle Ages, I Cannot Honestly Say That I Ever Felt The Slightest Emotion In Any Modern Gothic Church.

There Are The Manufacturing Multitudes Of England; They Must Have Work, And Find Markets For Their Work; If Machines And The Black Country Are Ugly, Famine Would Be Uglier Still.

The Novelist Must Look On Humanity Without Partiality Or Prejudice. His Sympathy, Like That Of The Historian, Must Be Unbounded, And Untainted By Sect Or Party.