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.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.