We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

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

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

O God, make me good, but not yet.

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.