Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

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.

When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.