Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.
Keep making the movements of life.
When I am wicked I am in high spirits.
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.
...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.