Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

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.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

No one is ever holy without suffering.