Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?