Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.