My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?