Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in er….

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty..

I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint….

In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be maro….

The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has nev….

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame..

The past is a funeral gone by..

The future comes like an unwelcome guest..