Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.