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 trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

No one is ever holy without suffering.

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

My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.