Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

We all grow on somebody's grave.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.