It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.