One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. |
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography |
Other nations use ''force''; we Britons alone use ''Might.'' |
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. |
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. |
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. |
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. |
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. |
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. |
Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. |
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. |
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish |
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. |
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances. |
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. |