I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their li…

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universitie…

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

To while away the idle hours, seated the livelong day before the inkslab, by jotting down without order or purpose whatever trifling thoughts pass through my m…

No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: 'Great heavens, did I write as well as …

Literature is analysis after the event.