Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

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.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

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.