If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

Language is a living thing

The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.

The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.