"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."

"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."

"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."

"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."

"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."

"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."

"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."