Do you think I take time to read the thirty or forty books?
No.

I first take a dive into the index, a second dive into the preface, a third dive into the four hundredth page, the fourth dive into the seventieth page, and then seize my pen and do up the whole job in fifteen minutes.

I make up my mind to like the book or not to like it, according as I admire or despise the author.

But the leniency or severity of my article depends on whether the room is cold and my rheumatism that day is sharp or easy.

Speaking of these things reminds me that the sermon which the Right Reverend Bishop Goodenough preached last Sunday, on 'Growth in Grace,' was taken down and brought to our office by a reporter who fell over the door-sill of the sanctum so drunk we had to help him up and fish in his pockets for the bishop's sermon on holiness of heart and life, which we were sure was somewhere about him." "Tut! tut!" cried Dr.Butterfield.