I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

A well begun is half ended.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

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.

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.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.