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 friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

A well begun is half ended.

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