“He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. ”

“concealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.”

“Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself--it is the occurring which is difficult.”

“A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.”

“Many a man inlove with a dimple makes the mistake of marring the whole Girl”

“ما أعجب الحياة !! يقول الطفل : عندما أشب فأصبح غلاماً.ويقول الغلام : عندما أترعرع فأصبح شاباً .ويقول الشاب : عندما أتزوج . فإذا تزوج قال عندما أصبح رجلاً متفرغاً .. فإذا جاءته الشيخوخة تطلع إلى المرحلة التي قطعها من عمره ,فإذا هي تلوح وكأن ريحاً باردة اكتسحتها اكتساحاً ,. إننا نعلم بعد فوات الأوان أن قيمة الحياة في أن نحياها .,نحيا كل يوم منها وكل ساعة”

“The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”