It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.