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.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.