Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
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.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.