Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Change is the only evidence of life.
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.