From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.