I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.