Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.