Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.