No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

...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.