There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

I never change, except in my affections.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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.