Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

The school is the manufactory of humanity.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

You have to dig deep in yourself to dream. You have to close your eyes to see.

Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you.

If you believe in “luck”, always let it be good luck. Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless".Be "happy", rather than "hapless".

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.

Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.