The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

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

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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.

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.