You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.