Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.