One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote–Alexander Pope. – Augustine Birrell
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. – Augustine Birrell
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote–Alexander Pope. – Augustine Birrell
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. – Augustine Birrell
An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. – Augustine Birrell
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,