[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.