An artist must be a reactionary

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

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

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

An artist must be a reactionary

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

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.