If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.

Remote and ineffectual don.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.