The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

I had been there before; I knew all about it.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

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

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

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.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.