I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.