No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.