For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

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.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

People are either born hosts or born guests.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.