Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.