If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

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

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

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.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.