“I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky.”...

“The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can’t come out and those outside don’t want to get...

“The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever...

“In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative...

This is Holywell Ford in Oxford. It is part of Madgalene college. I believe now that it is student accommodation...

“When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of...

“I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.” ~ Barbara Grizzuti...

“Harry Potter set Dobby free!” “Least I could do, Dobby”, said Harry, grinning. “Just promise never to try and save...

“Some pretty little girl in a bonnet that inspires a Shakespearean sonnet. Better yet, a woman’s choice of millinery to...

“The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it,...