She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.