Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown...
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.