Every successive wave of youths from the public schools brought some chosen spirits, perfectly wonderful persons, the most graceful and fascinating disciples that a poet could desire, and I preached the old-ever-new gospel of individual revolt and individual perfection.

I showed them that sin with its curiosities widened the horizons of life.

Prejudices and prohibitions are mere walls to imprison the soul.

Indulgence may hurt the body, Frank, but nothing except suffering hurts the spirit; it is self-denial and abstinence that maim and deform the soul." "Then they knew you as a great talker even at Oxford ?" I asked in some surprise.
"Frank," he cried reprovingly, laughing at the same time delightfully, "I was a great talker at school.

I did nothing at Trinity but talk, my reading was done at odd hours.