Sublime

In a primary sense puns are a perfect type of literary art.

that the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.

But when we are seeking for the real merits of a man it is unwise to go to his enemies, and much more foolish to go to himself.

The first and most striking feature is a stupidity that rises into a sort of ghastly innocence.

It is only the Mystic, the man who accepts the contradictions, who can laugh and walk easily through the world.

And when I say that everybody understands Dickens I do not mean that he is suited to the untaught intelligence. I mean that he is so plain that even scholars can understand him.

None of them could understand a thing that began to draw the proportions just as if they were real proportions, disposed in the living fashion which the mathematical draughtsman would call disproportionate.

There is something about these sayings that seems simple and familiar and entirely satisfactory when we say them; they are of that consoling sort which we can say without any of the mental pain of thinking what we are saying.

A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end.