You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

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.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.