Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

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

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.