He would, when engaged in an animated conversation with a friend, talk — Isa Bowman

"It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved."

"He had great ideas upon the importance of a regular and almost daily visit to the dentist. He himself went to a dentist as he would have gone to a hairdressers, and he insisted that all the little girls he knew should go too."

"Even in mathematics his whimsical fancy was sometimes suffered to peep out, and little girls who learnt the rudiments of calculation at his knee found the path they had imagined so thorny set about with roses by reason of the delightful fun with which he would turn a task into a joy. But when the fun was over the little girl would find that she had learnt the lesson (all unknowingly) just the same. Happy little girls who had such a master."

"To have even known such a man as he was is an inestimable boon. To have been with him for so long as a child, to have known so intimately the man who above all others has understood childhood, is indeed a memory on which to look back with thanksgiving and with tears."

"When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to ones feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited."