Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

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