"Cricket is quite a gentle, harmless game, but he is a lucky man who has not to sweat some blood before he's done with…"

"With few exceptions, luminous insects throughout the world belong, broadly speaking, to one family of Beetles, the , …"

"... After a brief period spent in other government offices, he transferred in 1910 to the , being appointed assistant…"

"That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em."

"Melancholy, I think, is a sort of default vagueness, a get-out clause, a smothering lack of focus."

"I have been working long enough as a potter to know that being commissioned is an extremely delicate business. You ar…"

"‘All quite openly, publicly and legally’ were words that Elisabeth was to hear repeated back to her. She discovered t…"

"In the 1960s, my grandmother Elisabeth, so assiduous in her letter-writing, such an advocate for the letter (‘write a…"

"‘Don’t you think those netsuke should stay in Japan?’ said a stern neighbour of mine in London. And I find I am shaki…"

"Buzzing to be baptised tonight!! My faith is such a massive part of my life and so now I’m ready to be dunked (yep it…"