A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.