He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

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

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

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