It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'