Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.