I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Western man is schizophrenic.

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.