[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.