You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.' Not at all. Not at all.' said the giant politely. 'Never met a nicer hankerchee.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.