Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.