The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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.