If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. ( The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon)
A reader comments about the funeral of the Mother Prioress of a convent in Wiltshire. While there, “we met another Mother Prioress of another enclosed convent who said that, apart from holy works, her nuns read ONLY works by PGW as his innocence and freedom from sin was almost Holy Writ itself”. (Wooster Sauce, March 2009)
I drove with the Regent and he drives very recklessly, like all royalties. Royalties should not drive cars. ( Chips Channon’s diaries, 24th September 1938)
It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians. (A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Spark)