No Roman Ever Was Able To Say,

Some People Are Born To Lift Heavy Weights, Some Are Born To Juggle Golden Balls.

I Was A Modest, Good-humoured Boy. It Is Oxford That Has Made Me Insufferable.

No Fine Work Can Be Done Without Concentration And Self-sacrifice And Toil And Doubt.

A Quiet City Is A Contradiction In Terms. It Is A Thing Uncanny, Spectral.

By Its Very Looseness, By Its Way Of Evoking Rather Than Defining, Suggesting Rather Than Saying, English Is A Magnificent Vehicle For Emotional Poetry.