“I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. ”

“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)”

“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.”

“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”

“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”

“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”

“It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.”

“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.”

“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”