"He was a man who, if he had a mind to do a thing, would do it."

"It is a most extraordinary, and at the same time a most natural, thing, that a man should be able to look back upon his life and see it as a whole."

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

"The English are, I am afraid, a little too much given to a kind of national conceit."