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

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.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

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

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

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.