Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

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

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.