Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.