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.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

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.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.