I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

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

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.