Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.