Incongruity Is The Mainspring Of Laughter.

A Hundred Eyes Were Fixed On Her, And Half As Many Hearts Lost To Her.

In Every Human Being One Or The Other Of These Two Instincts Is Predominant: The Active Or Positive Instinct To Offer Hospitality, The Negative Or Passive Instinct To Accept It. And Either Of These Instincts Is So Significant Of Character That One Might As Well Say That Mankind Is Divisible Into Two Great Classes: Hosts And Guests.

It Is Easier To Confess A Defect Than To Claim A Quality.

The Lower One's Vitality, The More Sensitive One Is To Great Art.

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