Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.