If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

When things are easy, I hate it.

Optimism is true moral courage.