The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

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

I put the words down and push them a bit.

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

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

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.