"All Dickens is packed with orphans or people in uncertain relation to family groups, or clubs. It’s impossible to rea…"

"“Into thirty centuries born,” Edwin Muir began his most celebrated poem, “At home in them all but the very last.” Muc…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

"In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include …"

"There is no thermometer for wants!"

"Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed."

"Even not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!"