What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.