“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for
“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs
“Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea
“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art
“Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think
“No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains
“If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.