Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.