"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"

"And that sweet City with her dreaming spires"

"Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge to the ordinary visitor; and the traveller is therefore recomme…"

"The nonsense which was knocked out of [boys] at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge."

"I was not unpopular [at school]... It is Oxford that has made me insufferable."

"The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse,"

"I am constantly filled with admiration at this – at the way you can wander through a town like Oxford and in the spac…"

"If I had to do literary work of an absorbing character, Oxford is the last place in which I should attempt to do it."

"I speak not of this college or of that, but of the University as a whole; and, gentlemen, what a whole Oxford is!"

"Steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enc…"