Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.