In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

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

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

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.

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