"The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted…"

"Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic, but we'll hope for the best."

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

"In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include …"

"There is no thermometer for wants!"