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

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

Easy reading requires hard writing.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing