No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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.
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.