The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.
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.