Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

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.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.