Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.