Miscellanea

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I …

It may be advisable, rather than lose the American interest, to let the Americans do it seems good for them – as long as it was possible (I should like to add) to veto …

Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly …

For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more—remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men’s hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very …

Those who have been at all acquainted with controversy, will find it the hardest thing for two warm disputants, when struggling hard for victory, not to throw about that …

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

However, the essence of a fallen world is that the best cannot be attained by free enjoyment, or by what is called ‘self-realization’ (usually a nice name for …

When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, [husbands] think they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find. The real soul-mate too …

I find that many children become interested, even engrossed, in The Lord of the Rings, from about 10 onwards. I think this is rather a pity, really. It was not written …

‘Never is too long a word even for me’ said Treebeard.