It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.