I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

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.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

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

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

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.