Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

I prefer men to cauliflowers

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.