Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.