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

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

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

"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

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