"In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."
"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."
"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."
"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."