Never repeat old grievances.

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.