What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

How long does getting thin take?

For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

It looks like a bothering sort of day.