Well-bred English people never have imagination.

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.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!