I had the divinest evening; Oxford meant so much to me....
"I wish I could tell you all Oxford did for me.
"I was the happiest man in the world when I entered Magdalen for the first time.

Oxford--the mere word to me is full of an inexpressible, an incommunicable charm.

Oxford--the home of lost causes and impossible ideals; Matthew Arnold's Oxford--with its dreaming spires and grey colleges, set in velvet lawns and hidden away among the trees, and about it the beautiful fields, all starred with cowslips and fritillaries where the quiet river winds its way to London and the sea....

The change, Frank, to me was astounding; Trinity was as barbarian as school, with coarseness superadded.

If it had not been for two or three people, I should have been worse off at Trinity than at Portora; but Oxford--Oxford was paradise to me.