Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.