So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.