It is a burden…(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is...

And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons’, and your...

All life is theatre,’ he said. ‘We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves….

He sat there all through a history lesson about the Roman Empire, which–having lived in the Roman Empire, for the four hundred years during which it had included the British Isles–he found inaccurate and boring.