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.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

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

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

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.