I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.