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

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.

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

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

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.

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