What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.