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

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

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

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

...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?

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