Lydia Martin

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.”
― Jacques Barzun

“Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. ”
― Jacques Barzun

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows