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.

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.