2. Here you are a selection of thought-provoking observations on education, literature and friendship. Enjoy them! I have never let my shooling interfere with my education Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer. Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist. The Decay of Lying. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar wilde I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead–ahead of myself as well as of you. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the burning of a fire William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet and dramatist. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Gail Godwin (1937) American novelist and short story writer

3. Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart… William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet, writer and philosopher But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Lord Byron (pen-name) George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) British poet There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet... indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English novelist and essayist

4. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship. William Blake (1757 –1827) English poet, painter and printmaker What we do live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other George Eliot (pen-name) Anne (Marian) Evans (1819-1880) English novelist We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 3 - 1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer