When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.