There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.