"It would not be fair to say all I have said in praise of the old Victorian middle-class, without admitting that it di…"

"I remember him assuring me quite eagerly of the hopeful thoughts aroused in him by the optimistic official prophecies…"

"Such, so far as I know it, was the social landscape in which I first found myself; and such were the people among who…"

"A man does not generally manage to forget his wedding-day; especially such a highly comic wedding-day as mine. For th…"

"From this general memory about memory I draw a certain inference. What was wonderful about childhood is that anything…"

"My father might have reminded people of Mr. Pickwick, except that he was always bearded and never bald; he wore spect…"

"His versatility both as an experimentalist and a handy man, in all such matters, was amazing. His den or study was pi…"

"If half a day is to take a man out of himself, or make a new man of him, it is better done by some sharp competitive …"

"I cannot do much, by the standard of my nursery days. But I have learned to love seeing things done; not the handle t…"

"No. 999 in the vast library-catalogue of the books I have never written (all of them so much more brilliant and convi…"