General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

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

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble to arrive till to-morrow. Whichever she did Mrs Leak would not mind. That was one of the advantages of dealing with witches; they do not mind if you are a little odd in your ways, frown if you are late for meals, fret if you are out all night, pry and commiserate when at length you return. Lovely to be with people who prefer their thoughts to yours, lovely to live at your own sweet will, lovely to sleep out all night!

Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.