News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

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.

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.