The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.

Yes, it seems that things like that should go on in London... It is better taste somehow that a man should be unfaithful to his wife away from home.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.