In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin.

Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.