Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

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.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.