A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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.