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.

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.

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.