If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.