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.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.