The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.