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.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

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.

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

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

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