There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.