You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.