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.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.