The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.