No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.