To seem natural rather than to be natural.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.