The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.