What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers…

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.