It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

Time at length becomes justice.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.