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

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

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

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

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.