the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better..

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss..

Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders..

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides..