It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

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

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

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.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.