People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

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.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.