It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.