To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.