I could, I think, with a year's hard study, qualify myself to fight a good battle for a Craven's scholarship.

I read, however, not as I read at College, but like a man of the world.

If I do not know a word, I pass it by unless it is important to the sense.

If I find, as I have of late often found, a passage which refuses to give up its meaning at the second reading, I let it alone.

I have read during the last fortnight, before breakfast, three books of Herodotus, and four plays of Aeschylus.