The Hospitable Instinct Is Not Wholly Altruistic.

To Give And Then Not Feel That One Has Given Is The Very Best Of All Ways Of Giving.

To Say That A Man Is Vain Means Merely That He Is Pleased With The Effect He Produces On Other People.

For People Who Like That Kind Of Thing, This Is The Kind Of Thing They Like.

Have You Noticed ... There Is Never Any Third Act In A Nightmare? They Bring You To A Climax Of Terror And Then Leave You There. They Are The Work Of Poor Dramatists.

Not That I Had Any Special Reason For Hating School. Strange As It May Seem To My Readers, I Was Not Unpopular There. I Was A Modest, Good-humoured Boy. It Is Oxford That Has Made Me Insufferable.