It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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.