I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.