If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.

I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.