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

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

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

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.