From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

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

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.