Witches and wizards lead difficult lives because they have no ancestry working within them to prompt them in the little details.

Whenever you see a person being unusually grown-up, suspect them of magic.

You can always notice witches and wizards, for instance, after eight o'clock at night, pretending that they are not proud of sitting up late.

It is all nonsense about witches being night birds; they often fly about at night, indeed, but only because they are like permanent children gloriously escaped for ever from their Nanas.
"This picture," added Richard, "seems to me very beautiful." The picture might have cost a shilling originally, framed, or it might have been attached to a calendar once.

It was a landscape so thick in colouring and so lightless that it failed to give an outdoor impression at all.
There was a river and waterfall like well-combed hair in the middle, and a dozen leaden mountains lying about with--apparently--pocket-handkerchiefs on their tops, and a dropsical-looking stag drinking.