A well begun is half ended.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.