All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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.