When Something Startlingly New Comes Up, Young

If You Don't Set Your Writing - Teaching - At A Level That Makes Them Stretch, They Are Never Going To Develop Their Intellectual Muscle.

Hard Work Makes Easy Reading Or, At Least, Easier Reading.

If You Read Quickly To Get Through A Poem To What It Means, You Have Missed The Body Of The Poem.

It's Amazing How, Age After Age, In Country After Country, And In All Languages, Shakespeare Emerges As Incomparable.

Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury. It Expands You In Every Way. It Illuminates What You’re Doing. It Shows You Possibilities You Haven’t Thought Of. It Enables You To Live The Lives Of Other People Than Yourself. It Broadens You, It Makes You More Human. It Makes Life Enjoyable.