I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.