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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of whi...more

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this ...more

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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 ...more

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We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading.

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When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probabl...more

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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.

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Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I ...more

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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

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Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need th...more

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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.

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We read to know we are not alone.

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The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics.