I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

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

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

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?

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.