We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.