One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.