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

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

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.

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

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be