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

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

Imagination grows by exercise.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.