"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

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

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

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

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.