The sounding jargon of the schools.

Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind.

He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed -- love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Spare feast! a radish and an egg.

I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since.