He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.