For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

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.