To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.