We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

You can make anything by writing.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.