the Professor Quotes

″...people must not tyrannize, nor try to be great because they are little.”

″‘If you meant that you have come for breakfast, I fear that I have nothing left but half a pound of mustard.’ She put her hand on the bottle-green sleeve and made him drop the bag. The reference to breakfast had touched her, for she knew he seldom had enough to eat.”

“My dear, you are a great person yourself, in any case, and you do not need to lord it over others, in order to prove your greatness.”