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

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

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

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

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.