The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

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.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

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 one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.