Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.