Personality Is Lower Than Partiality.

Art Is Expression, And To Have High Expression You Must Have Something High To Express.

The Materials Of The Novelist Must Be Real; They Must Be Gathered From The Field Of Humanity By His Actual Observation.

Dante Himself Is Open To The Suspicion Of Partiality: It Is Said, Not Without Apparent Ground, That He Puts Into Hell All The Enemies Of The Political Cause, Which, In His Eyes, Was That Of Italy And God.

But If Anyone Supposes That There Was No Commercial Fraud In The Middle Ages, Let Him Study The Commercial Legislation Of England For That Period, And His Mind Will Be Satisfied, If He Has A Mind To Be Satisfied And Not Only A Fancy To Run Away With Him.

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.