To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. - Max Beerbohm

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

One has never known a good man to whom dogs were not dear; but many of the best women have no such fondness. You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. For the attractive woman, dogs are mere dumb and restless brutes — possibly dangerous, certainly soulless. Yet will coquetry teach her to caress any dog in the presence of a man enslaved by her.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.