Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

I never expect a soldier to think.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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.