Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.