Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.