The English Are Terribly Lazy About Fighting.

Chess Is One Long Regret.

Charles Dickens' Creation Of Mr. Pickwick Did More For The Elevation Of The Human Race - I Say It In All Seriousness - Than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid The Encircling Gloom. Newman Only Cried Out For Light In The Gloom Of A Sad World. Dickens Gave It.

Now, The Essence, The Very Spirit Of Christmas Is That We First Make Believe A Thing Is So, And Lo, It Presently Turns Out To Be So.

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.

There Are Two Things In Ordinary Conversation Which Ordinary People Dislike - Information And Wit