cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.