Beauty And The Lust For Learning Have

The Hospitable Instinct Is Not Wholly Altruistic. There Is Pride And Egoism Mixed Up With It.

Every Kind Of Writing Is Hypocritical.

It Distresses Me, This Failure To Keep Pace With The Leaders Of Thought, As They Pass Into Oblivion.

But To Die Of Laughter--this, Too, Seems To Me A Great Euthanasia.

I Was A Modest, Good-humoured Boy. It Is Oxford That Has Made Me Insufferable.