“The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.”

“Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”