It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him.

If they were hypocrites they did not know it, and their hypocrisy had every chance of setting and of becoming true.

He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end...

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned...