Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

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.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

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

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

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.