The Books - The Generous

I Used To Attend Scientific Experiments When I Was A Girl At School. They Invariably Ended In An Explosion. If Mr. Jennings Will Be So Very Kind, I Should Like To Be Warned Of The Explosion This Time. With A View To Getting It Over, If Possible, Before I Go To Bed.

The Dull People Decided Years And Years Ago, As Everyone Knows, That Novel-writing Was The Lowest Species Of Literary Exertion, And That Novel Reading Was A Dangerous Luxury And An Utter Waste Of Time.

What Lurking Temptations To Forbidden Tenderness Find Their Finding-places In A Woman's Dressing-gown, When She Is Alone In Her Room At Night!

The Law Will Argue Any Thing, With Any Body Who Will Pay The Law For The Use Of Its Brains And Its Time.

My Hour For Tea Is Half-past Five, And My Buttered Toast Waits For Nobody.