Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.