youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

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

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.

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

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

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

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!