Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.