Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.