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

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

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

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.