the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.