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.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

O God, make me good, but not yet.

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!