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.

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

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

A well begun is half ended.

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

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

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!