Sublime

He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,

If some one says, “Jones blew his nose,” and Jones is of so peculiar a formation that one may with logical propriety ask, “Which nose?” that is no reason why the ordinary formula should lose its ordinary human utility. This is, I think, one of the most real dangers that lie in front of the civilization that has just discovered the Leprechaun.

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

Terry's smile

that element of the outrageous which is the mother of all adventures sprang up ungovernable,

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.