Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.