It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.