Sublime

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.

when free speech was a perilous exercise, and when to declaim against vice and folly was to court personal risk, the fable was invented, or resorted to, by the moralist as a circuitous method of achieving the end he desired to reach—the

He has what he fancies is a new idea; and he is going to apply it to everybody. As a fact it is simply a false generalisation; but he is really trying to make it general.

Perhaps the most thoroughly brilliant and typical man of this decade is Mr. Bernard Shaw.

This is the true and exact account of the Great Cigar Fraud, and the moral of it is this–that civilisation is founded upon abstractions.

But this quality is what we love him for now. In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious).

apocryphal.

He was even in many ways very modern, which some rather erroneously suppose to be the same as being human;

“Jesus Christ is the Falafel King?” “He is the king of ev-ery-thing. Could be Pizza King. Could be Sushi King. Same guy.”