One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
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.