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

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.