I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.